Anshu Kandhari

Backend Engineer • Product Manager • Project Manager • Bengaluru, KA, IN

Leadership

Management

Backend Development

Software Development

API

REST

Microservices

Architecture

MySQL

Databases

Git

Amazon Web Services

Spring Boot

Computer Science

Java

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Contracts

13 Yrs of Experience | Ex-(Facebook, Cred, Uber, Paytm) | CTO | Distinguished Engineer | Startup Founder. Built scalable distributed apps from scratch

● Conceptualized, Designed, Developed, Deployed, Optimized & Scaled Distributed Web applications ● Founded two startups & successfully raised funds for one of them ● Extensive Fintech, ecommerce & B2B experience ● Built Teams from scratch by hiring in UAE, India and Singapore ● Actively contributing and leading product, business, strategy and financial planning ● Analyzed & streamlined the development process to reduce the time to market for multiple projects.

Projects

Payments Platform

● Architected building modular consumer platform ● Building service maturity charter at CRED ● Building UPI Stack for acquiring transactions ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the payments ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution ● Monitoring App Performance, critical Business metrics etc. with right alerts mechanismSee More

Facebook Messenger Conversational Commerce

● Leading Business Commerce team of 20+ FTE, 6 FTC and 5 SDETs across Singapore, Canada & USA ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the team ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution to over 24 markets ● Collaborating with cross functional teams, set vision ● Improved Business Commerce Ads performance (ROAS) by 2.6x for SEA ● Aligning multiple orgs within Meta towards coherent architectural for Managed partner ads ● Leading architecture design, development & launching of Collaborative Ads which increased revenue by 1.8x ● Partnering with Product managers, XFNs, design regularly in an agile environment to data backed drive decisionsSee More

Breaking Monolith to microservices

Was tasked with extracting and creating a wallet system from the monolith. Also the payments system had to support transactions from all the new business domains as well as Existing use case could not break. We delivered this successfully in span of 6 months with shadow migrations, A/B testing as well as with P99 latency increase of <50ms due to increased network hop. See More

Work History

Software Architect

CREDDec 2022 - Sep 2023 • 10 mosCRED Payments Platform ● Architected building modular consumer platform ● Building service maturity charter at CRED ● Building UPI Stack for acquiring transactions ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the payments ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution ● Monitoring App Performance, critical Business metrics etc. with right alerts mechanism

Staff Engineeer

FacebookApr 2020 - Dec 2022 • 2 yrs 9 mosMessenger & Collab Ads Commerce [Hacklang, Golang, Java, React, React-native, nodeJS, GraphQL, Python] ● Leading Business Commerce team of 20+ FTE, 6 FTC and 5 SDETs across Singapore, Canada & USA ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the team ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution to over 24 markets ● Collaborating with cross functional teams, set vision ● Improved Business Commerce Ads performance (ROAS) by 2.6x for SEA ● Aligning multiple orgs within Meta towards coherent architectural for Managed partner ads ● Leading architecture design, development & launching of Collaborative Ads which increased revenue by 1.8x ● Partnering with Product managers, XFNs, design regularly in an agile environment to data backed drive decisions ● Startup Mentorship to 3 startups under Meta accelerator FB start

Sr. Lead

CareemNov 2017 - Apr 2020 • 2 yrs 6 mos● Leading team in creating secure, scalable & compliant digital wallet along with hiring its team from scratch ● Managing & contributing to product management, strategy and financial requirements ● Breaking Goals into OKRs, managing stakeholder reporting via OKR scoring ● Managing a high performing development team of engineers, ensuring good team health, feedback culture, scheduled 1:1s and following Agile development practices ● Partnered with Marketing, Designers,Director & Founders for Careem PAY vision and launch ● Architecting the system, designing business and tech KPIs for the Careem PAY vertical ● Leading the Careem PAY Data Platform team to deliver financial reporting/PnL/Business Reporting ● Launched Careem Pay in 18 countries with 2M daily transaction ● Founded & Presented business idea for handling Cash, implemented it and made it live ● Migrated wallet from an old monolithic architecture to microservices with 0 business downtime ● Established tech culture and processes around IAC, CICD, CDTs & BDD with Extreme Programming (XP) at its core

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